Hepworth Movies

'Brighton. Dude searches for girl's lost shoes and stockings.' (British Film Catalogue)

A troupe of gypsies takes a traveler along with them on their day trip.

An early trick film where a car explodes and body parts fall from the sky. A policeman witnesses and attempts to piece the remains back together.

A woman agrees to kiss the winner of a race between a horse and a motorcar.

Filmed from the front of a steam launch in a late Victorian summer, this film offers a glimpse of our 19th century ancestors enjoying their leisure...

A phantom ride.

A policeman is run over by an automobile

Funny how we think of the loutish behaviour of some of today's teens as a modern-day phenomenon. Here, in a short film more than one hundred years...

A dog leads its master to his kidnapped baby.

HELEN OF FOUR GATES was made in Hebden Bridge in 1920 by silent film pioneer Cecil M. Hepworth, based on a popular novel of the same name. Reportedly...

Documentary on the process of hay-making, from the cutting of the grass to the stacking of the hay.

A soldier's tunic button, made from Aladdin's lamp, grants his wishes.

A professor eating his lunch at his work table becomes suspicious of the taste of his cheese. He puts a slice under the nearby microscope. But the...

Survey of the Boer war with reconstructions and actualities.

Two romantic suitors avoid their wet-blanket chaperone by way of the titular hedge.

A boy uses a professor's liquid to make objects transparent.

As the camera looks down an open road, a horse and carriage approaches, and passes by to one side of the field of view. Soon afterwards, an...

A housekeeper's daughter loves a toper's affianced friend.

Three suitors try to impress a girl by chasing her all over the place. Finally she makes her choice.

Young heiress Margaret Yeoland is found unconscious on the Devonshire moors by a disillusioned author, Denis Marlowe. She tells him she has run away...